Offending behaviour often is connected to the personal or societal difficulties faced by an individual. The Probation Service has partnerships with a number of other agencies tackling these issues as they contribute to crime, including: homelessness, drug or alcohol addiction or social deprivation.

This section explains what probation is and how it can be an opportunity for you to change the track you are on. It also outlines what to expect when you are referred to the Probation Service by the Courts.

This section outlines what happens when you are first referred to the Probation Service for Assessment. This includes information on what the Probation Officer will seek to cover with you, how long it may take and what happens when the assessment is finished.

Address by the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality, Frances Fitzgerald T.D. at the Launch of the Irish Prison Service Annual Report 2016, the Probation Service Annual Report 2016 and the launch of “A New Way Forward - the Joint Social Enterprise Strategy 2017 -2019, Mountjoy Prison - May 15th 2017

The Probation Service's monthly 'Point in Time' Statistical Report, at 1st August 2017, has been published and is now available on the Service's website.

The Probation Service publish monthly statistical updates on the Service's caseload of offenders currently being dealt with in the community and in custody. This summary information is taken from data on our (IT) Case Tracking System and reflects a 'snapshot' of our caseload at a single point in time each month. The reports are published on the first working day of each month. While the categorisation of probation referrals can be relatively complex in reality, this monthly bulletin will capture and reflect the situation in simple terms, highlighting 'headline' categorisations by geographical spread, age and gender, predominantly, with some statistical breakdown of some of the more significant supervision categories.

This initiative marks an important development and the resulting statistics will be available to Service stakeholders, researchers and anyone with an interest in the work of the Service.

The statistics in relation to the 1st of August 2017 are now available on our website at: